Community – The Levellerhttps://leveller.ca
Campus • Community • CultureFri, 11 Jan 2019 15:26:07 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.9https://leveller.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/cropped-Leveller-Favicon-150x150.pngCommunity – The Levellerhttps://leveller.ca
3232From Hard Numbers to Harder Realityhttps://leveller.ca/2018/11/from-hard-numbers-to-harder-reality/
https://leveller.ca/2018/11/from-hard-numbers-to-harder-reality/#commentsWed, 14 Nov 2018 00:55:28 +0000https://leveller.ca/?p=4861By Mumina Egal and Josh Hawley On Sept. 29, 2015, tenants from 80 townhouses on one parcel of land in Herongate received eviction notices from their landlord, Timbercreek Asset Management. The tenants were told to be out by Feb. 29, 2016, in the dead of winter. This was the first round of Timbercreek’s Herongate evictions, …

]]>https://leveller.ca/2018/11/from-hard-numbers-to-harder-reality/feed/1Condos on an Algonquin sacred site?https://leveller.ca/2018/11/condos-on-an-algonquin-sacred-site/
https://leveller.ca/2018/11/condos-on-an-algonquin-sacred-site/#commentsWed, 14 Nov 2018 00:07:54 +0000https://leveller.ca/?p=4866By Matt Cicero It was on a cold autumn Saturday at the end of October that close to a hundred people came together for a panel discussion named “Reconciliation: Remembering Creator’s Sacred Pipe.” The discussion aimed to show why settler construction companies are building condominiums at Akikodjiwan (Chaudière Falls), an Algonquin sacred site. There …

]]>https://leveller.ca/2018/11/condos-on-an-algonquin-sacred-site/feed/3“I was very scared because I am new to this country and my English is not very good”https://leveller.ca/2018/11/i-was-very-scared-because-i-am-new-to-this-country-and-my-english-is-not-very-good/
https://leveller.ca/2018/11/i-was-very-scared-because-i-am-new-to-this-country-and-my-english-is-not-very-good/#respondTue, 13 Nov 2018 22:55:58 +0000https://leveller.ca/?p=4859For months, the Herongate Tenant Coalition has documented the long-standing intimidation tactics Timbercreek has employed. In June 2018, tenants reported at one of its weekly meetings that face-to-face intimidation had occurred, targeting non-English speaking women who had received eviction notices in May 2018. Tenants said the property manager, Paul Boutros, was knocking on the doors …

]]>https://leveller.ca/2018/11/i-was-very-scared-because-i-am-new-to-this-country-and-my-english-is-not-very-good/feed/0Turkey’s Democratic Suicidehttps://leveller.ca/2018/10/turkeys-democratic-suicide/
https://leveller.ca/2018/10/turkeys-democratic-suicide/#respondWed, 17 Oct 2018 18:35:04 +0000https://leveller.ca/?p=4822By David Kitz and Tim Kitz Democracy and human rights have been steadily eroding in Turkey under the increasingly authoritarian rule of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. After serving as mayor of Istanbul in the ’90s, Erdoğan became Prime Minister in 2003, switching to President in 2014, and remaining in power to the present. Erdoğan’s program …

]]>https://leveller.ca/2018/10/turkeys-democratic-suicide/feed/0The Faces of Present-Day Persecutionhttps://leveller.ca/2018/10/the-faces-of-present-day-persecution/
https://leveller.ca/2018/10/the-faces-of-present-day-persecution/#respondWed, 17 Oct 2018 15:44:40 +0000https://leveller.ca/?p=4820By David Kitz What do the faces of present-day persecution look like? They look remarkably like the faces of the boy and girl pictured here. After fleeing arrest in their hometown in Turkey, this family risked their lives in a daring midnight dash across a rain-swollen river that marks the border with Greece. Currently, these …

]]>https://leveller.ca/2018/10/the-faces-of-present-day-persecution/feed/0Stateless and Bail-lesshttps://leveller.ca/2018/10/stateless-and-bail-less/
https://leveller.ca/2018/10/stateless-and-bail-less/#respondWed, 17 Oct 2018 02:35:32 +0000https://leveller.ca/?p=4809By Matt Cicero On Nov. 6, 2017 Deepan Budlakoti, a Canadian-born man of South Asian descent made stateless in 2011, was arrested by the Ontario Provincial Police in connection with alleged weapons offences. The next evening, Budlakoti was transferred to the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre (OCDC). In addition to being stateless, he was denied bail and …

]]>https://leveller.ca/2018/10/stateless-and-bail-less/feed/0Clive Doucet’s Ideal Herongatehttps://leveller.ca/2018/10/clive-doucets-ideal-herongate/
https://leveller.ca/2018/10/clive-doucets-ideal-herongate/#respondTue, 16 Oct 2018 18:44:36 +0000https://leveller.ca/?p=4725By Yasmine Ghania Mayoral candidate Clive Doucet’s platform advocates ditching a “developer-first model of growing Ottawa” in favour of a “community-first model.” Since the platform prominently and specifically calls out the Herongate evictions that The Leveller has extensively reported on, we were intrigued to sit down with Doucet and discuss how he would do things …

]]>https://leveller.ca/2018/10/clive-doucets-ideal-herongate/feed/0Tornado Reliefhttps://leveller.ca/2018/10/tornado-relief/
https://leveller.ca/2018/10/tornado-relief/#respondTue, 16 Oct 2018 18:27:06 +0000https://leveller.ca/?p=4719By Caroline Rodriguez-Charette Tornado warnings are not unheard of in Ottawa-Gatineau weather forecasts, but they have usually provided little cause for concern. All of that changed on Sept 21. That’s when an outbreak of six tornadoes hit Eastern Ontario and Southern Quebec. Between 3:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m, one of the tornadoes caused a great …

]]>https://leveller.ca/2018/10/tornado-relief/feed/0The German Money Behind the Heron Gate Evictionshttps://leveller.ca/2018/09/the-german-money-behind-the-heron-gate-evictions/
https://leveller.ca/2018/09/the-german-money-behind-the-heron-gate-evictions/#commentsFri, 21 Sep 2018 04:14:08 +0000http://leveller.ca/?p=4611By Josh Hawley In the Heron Gate neighbourhood of south Ottawa, tools from the world of finance and a flow of European capital are being used to fuel the largest mass urban displacement in Canada. A small number of corporate executives, from companies that are intertwined behind the scenes have strategically neglected the property, ignored …

]]>https://leveller.ca/2018/09/the-german-money-behind-the-heron-gate-evictions/feed/2Protestors Rally to Protect Workers’ Rightshttps://leveller.ca/2018/09/protestors-rally-to-protect-workers-rights/
https://leveller.ca/2018/09/protestors-rally-to-protect-workers-rights/#respondFri, 21 Sep 2018 03:21:30 +0000http://leveller.ca/?p=4602By Rick Telfer More than two dozen activists convened in front of Conservative Jeremy Roberts’ constituency office on Sep. 15 in the provincial riding of Ottawa West–Nepean. The group rallied under the banner of the Fight for $15 and Fairness campaign to demand that the PC government maintain the minimum wage increases and other employment …